Something On My Mac is Blocking WoW, Second life, and other such games

I can't figure it out. There's some program on my Mac that's blocking the game's ability to go online. I uninstalled Norton (with a full norton remover) and it has no processes running, my Mac firewall allows all connections...I just cant figure it out. Here's my list of processes. When I run VMWare Windows, the things work well, but being games, it works slowly. It has to be something Mac.
Active Memory: 815.78 MB
Free Memory: 900.50 MB
Wired Memory: 175.98 MB
Used Memory: 1.11 GB
Inactive Memory: 140.21 MB
Total VM: 60.50 GB
Number of processes: 86
ID Process Name User CPU RSIZE VSIZE
0 kernel_task root 4.7 85.58 MB 1.15 GB
1 launchd root 0.0 532.00 KB 586.73 MB
10 kextd root 0.0 1.15 MB 586.19 MB
11 DirectoryService root 0.0 3.02 MB 588.79 MB
12 notifyd root 0.0 464.00 KB 586.18 MB
13 syslogd root 0.0 1.32 MB 588.66 MB
14 configd root 0.0 1.88 MB 587.23 MB
15 distnoted daemon 0.6 740.00 KB 585.59 MB
16 mDNSResponder _mdnsrespo 0.0 1.18 MB 587.50 MB
18 launchd _mdnsrespo 0.0 448.00 KB 585.73 MB
20 securityd root 0.0 1.92 MB 587.37 MB
25 ntpd root 0.0 836.00 KB 586.12 MB
26 cron root 0.0 636.00 KB 586.69 MB
28 update root 0.0 284.00 KB 585.57 MB
29 SystemStarter root 0.0 676.00 KB 585.61 MB
33 RFBRegisterMDNS root 0.0 1.05 MB 586.62 MB
34 mds root 0.0 19.39 MB 722.31 MB
35 loginwindow ben 0.0 8.52 MB 894.75 MB
36 KernelEventAgent root 0.0 640.00 KB 585.68 MB
37 kdcmond root 0.0 1,020.00 KB 585.73 MB
39 hidd root 0.0 580.00 KB 585.59 MB
40 fseventsd root 0.0 1.27 MB 593.35 MB
41 dynamic_pager root 0.0 704.00 KB 585.61 MB
43 diskarbitrationd root 0.0 1.03 MB 585.69 MB
47 autofsd root 0.0 664.00 KB 585.62 MB
48 socketfilterfw root 0.0 1.48 MB 585.83 MB
52 coreservicesd root 0.0 23.77 MB 615.97 MB
54 blued root 0.0 2.00 MB 596.61 MB
72 vmnet-natd root 0.0 244.00 KB 586.14 MB
78 vmnet-dhcpd root 0.0 208.00 KB 585.93 MB
80 vmnet-netifup root 0.0 152.00 KB 586.64 MB
83 vmnet-netifup root 0.0 152.00 KB 586.64 MB
88 vmnet-dhcpd root 0.0 208.00 KB 585.93 MB
90 vmnet-bridge root 0.0 376.00 KB 586.70 MB
91 WindowServer _windowser 25.9 38.54 MB 957.45 MB
100 krb5kdc root 0.0 1.39 MB 586.05 MB
110 llipd root 0.0 220.00 KB 585.59 MB
112 qmasterd root 0.0 3.58 MB 592.13 MB
121 privoxy root 0.0 3.92 MB 670.04 MB
123 RetroRun root 0.0 2.84 MB 734.00 MB
124 qmasterd root 0.0 3.81 MB 592.20 MB
140 pvsnatd root 0.0 532.00 KB 588.22 MB
148 coreaudiod root 0.0 5.68 MB 594.61 MB
162 RetroRunSL root 0.0 6.00 MB 917.69 MB
165 mdworker nobody 0.0 2.88 MB 602.80 MB
166 mdworker ben 0.0 8.44 MB 643.22 MB
168 launchd ben 0.0 540.00 KB 585.73 MB
172 Folder Actions Dispatcher ben 0.0 3.08 MB 873.02 MB
175 ARDAgent ben 0.0 2.96 MB 905.40 MB
177 Spotlight ben 0.0 4.69 MB 880.55 MB
178 UserEventAgent ben 0.0 5.82 MB 607.57 MB
180 AppleVNCServer ben 0.0 2.15 MB 852.86 MB
181 pboard ben 0.0 580.00 KB 586.63 MB
182 ATSServer ben 0.0 5.64 MB 667.04 MB
183 VNCPrivilegeProx root 0.0 616.00 KB 586.61 MB
184 Dock ben 0.0 21.57 MB 952.62 MB
185 WDBMService root 0.0 116.00 KB 586.62 MB
190 SystemUIServer ben 0.0 12.12 MB 931.26 MB
191 Finder ben 0.0 10.70 MB 935.40 MB
210 iTunes ben 0.0 42.57 MB 985.90 MB
213 nmbd root 0.0 1.23 MB 586.94 MB
221 pplogger ben 0.0 3.95 MB 896.43 MB
222 pploader ben 0.0 7.69 MB 877.63 MB
223 iTunes Helper ben 0.0 2.32 MB 849.18 MB
224 Quıcĸsıɩⅴεʀ ben 0.0 22.96 MB 952.32 MB
225 Adium ben 0.0 24.68 MB 985.13 MB
227 YouControlTunesEngine ben 0.0 7.85 MB 916.68 MB
228 Speech Synthesis Server ben 0.0 2.95 MB 873.13 MB
231 iAlertU ben 0.0 12.39 MB 928.06 MB
232 EyeTV Helper ben 0.0 2.49 MB 849.26 MB
233 GrowlHelperApp ben 0.0 11.64 MB 924.62 MB
234 PlugSuit ben 0.0 3.39 MB 872.98 MB
235 Microsoft AU Daemon ben 0.0 2.28 MB 864.66 MB
236 MagicMenu ben 0.0 5.13 MB 915.96 MB
237 Mail ben 0.2 38.57 MB 1,015.48 MB
238 Spirited Away ben 0.0 4.77 MB 930.93 MB
239 EarthDesk Engine ben 2.8 78.87 MB 1.08 GB
240 Safari ben 1.2 139.97 MB 1.13 GB
243 usbmuxd nobody 0.0 684.00 KB 586.98 MB
253 MagicMenuHotKeyDaemon ben 0.0 2.49 MB 879.34 MB
263 SyncServer ben 0.0 5.18 MB 601.36 MB
274 launchd _securitya 0.0 448.00 KB 585.73 MB
365 AppleSpell.service ben 0.0 3.46 MB 601.71 MB
372 Activity Monitor ben 37.9 17.19 MB 988.68 MB
373 pmTool root 23.3 1.34 MB 595.68 MB
387 smbclient ben 0.0 1.18 MB 588.29 MB
Thanks!

Thank you for the reply. I did try change my DNS server didn't seem to help.
When you are on iTunes and click on Help Menu highlight Run Disgnositcs choose Network Connectivity Test do you get any red buttons?
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